일본 애니메이션 속 요괴콘텐츠 구현 방식과 상징성 연구 -요괴 애니메이션을 중심으로-

Abstract

This paper basically aims to study the secret of popularity of Japanese animation in the world. Among the numerous reasons for the popularity, it is true that various and unique genre attributes of Japanese animation have become a great driving force that positions Japanese animation in the current fame. Especially, it analyzes the reason and tries to read out the diachronic meaning focusing on the background of a Yokai animation being loved for a long time of all popular genres. Also, it analyzes the way of embodying Yokai contents in a Yokai animation and symbolic meanings. In the process, it presents not only the meaning of Yokai contents in Japan, separating a real and surreal space and crossing the boundary between human beings and Yokai, and the coexistence and confrontation etc. between the beings who have crossed the boundary, but also the reasons for such aspects to be developed. Thus, by effectively using the double features of Yokai that coexists with humans peacefully and makes them scared, it fully shows that the strategic value and sustainability as a cultural content of a Yokai content.